SOUTH-TOWN, a parish in the hundred of MUTFORD-and-LOTHINGLAND,
county of SUFFOLK, 1 mile
(S. by W.) from Great Yarmouth, containing 1039 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, consolidated,
in 1520, with the vicarage of Gorleston, in
the archdeaconry of Suffolk, and diocese of Norwich.
The church, now demolished, was dedicated to
St. Nicholas. South-town, or Little Yarmouth, which
forms a populous suburb to Great Yarmouth, extends
from Yarmouth bridge about half a mile to the southward,
along the western bank of the river, one side of
the road being occupied by elegant private houses, and
the opposite, by timber wharfs, docks, and yards for
ship-building, which afford employment to a great
number of shipwrights and others.